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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: "Earning Interest on Your Principles": Working Assets VISA, travel (autopost)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.093004.27204@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 09:30:04 GMT
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- Is your money being invested in companies building nuclear weapons?
- Corporations destroying the environment, or who "union-bust" or
- discriminate? What you have in a "regular bank" quite likely is
- invested in assets promoting things we are strongly opposed to. Below
- are several places to put your money which won't let your money work
- against your values...
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- Working Assets VISA (and Working Assets Student VISA)
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- When you sign up, Working Assets donates [$2 for student VISA, $5 for
- regular, I think] to progressive non-profit organizations working for
- peace, human rights, and the environment. Then, every time you use
- your card -- no matter how small the purchase -- Working Assets
- contributes 5 cents to the same progressive groups... at no cost to
- you.
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- No Annual Free for first 6 months. Then just $20 a year.
- No finance charge on purchases paid within 25 days.
- Annual fixed percentage rate just 17.5% if you defer payment.
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- For An application or more information, call: (800)52-APPLY
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- W H E R E T H E M O N E Y G O E S
- Each time you use one of our "Tools for Practical Idealists," money
- flows to non-profit action groups working for peace, human rights, the
- environment and economic justice. All members can nominate groups to
- be recipients of the Working Assets Funding Service Donations Pool.
- Then, once a year, you vote on how to allocate the funds. Since 1986
- members have generated over $700,000 in donations to groups like those
- below:
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- ENVIRONMENT:
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- African Wildlife Foundation * Clean Water Fund * Conservation
- International * Earth Island Institute * Environmental Defense
- Fund * National Toxics Campaign * National Resources Defense
- Council * Rainforest Action Network * Rocky Mountain
- Institute * Trust for Public Land
- HUMAN RIGHTS:
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- American Civil Liberties Union * Amnesty International *
- Equal Rights Advocates * Gray Panthers * Lambda Defense
- Fund * National AIDS Network * National Black Women's
- Health Project * National Council of La Raza * Native
- American Rights Fund * Southern Poverty Law Center
- PEACE:
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- Africa Fund * Center for Economic Conversion * Educators for
- Social Responsibility * Grassroots International * Jobs With
- Peace * INFACT * MADRE * Neighbor to Neighbor * Nuclear
- Free America * SANE/Freeze * Union of Concerned Scientists *
- U.S. - U.S.S.R. Youth Exchange Program
- ECONOMIC JUSTICE:
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- Accio'n International * Children's Defense Fund * Industrial
- Cooperative Association * Institute for Community Economics *
- National Health Care Campaign * National Union of the Homeless
- * Oxfam America * Second Harvest * Seventh Generation Fund *
- Women's World Banking
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- Working Assets Travel Service:
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- Change the World While You See It.
- Whenever you use Working Assets Travel Service to buy an airline
- ticket, rent a car or charge a hotel room, we give 2 percent of your
- purchase to the same organization... again, at no cost to you
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- How You Benefit:
- * FREE travel consultations and bookings
- * Guaranteed lowest available air fare at time of booking
- * 24-hour emergency hotline
- * Easy to use, just call 1-800-332-3637
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